Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Human Identity Issues

In an era of narcissism, fragile connections between people, a challenge from society regarding not only traditional values, but also gender issues, in a period of rapid development of information technology and artificial intelligence, questions of self-determination again arise before humans and humanity. But to approach this question, you need to ask the main question that people asked themselves thousands years ago: Who am I? Nowadays issues of identity occupy a very large part of the information space, and therefore we can conclude that these problems are now acutely facing the modern world. Working with colleagues at the Center for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, we also notice the frequency of client requests related to low self-worth, insularity, depression, finding yourself and self-love, the search for personal boundaries, self-determination, lack of understanding of what to do in life, the desire for change and at the same time fear of changing. This paper is covered issues connect with formation of human identity, what its origins according to psychoanalytic view, the research of the formation of the image of the Self: the bodily Self and the mental Self, what place do identifications occupy in the construction of human identity, consideration of issues of initial constitutional features and it’s place in the construction of identity, as well as issues of diffuse identity. Human identity is a dynamic multi-layered category that includes many experiences of interactions with objects through the incorporation and throwing aside of images, properties and features of the object, which includes living the experience of pleasure and displeasure, giving rise to many phantasms that accompany a person’s life, forming desires and fears, defenses and a variety of forms of interaction with an object and a variety of forms of object relations.